I’m not a turban/sherwani purist…at my insistence, my fiancee will be wearing a tuxedo at our wedding. But if you’re going to wear a turban, I think you should find something that looks like it might conceivably be real at opposed to a gaudy plastic helmet.
Something like this:
Instead of this:
Another awful sherwani btw.
No…the problem arises because Shameem auntie has her dupatta (embroidered with only the finest “sequence” of course) pinned over her bosom just so, but at as a little she was taught that you have to quickly pull your dupatta over your head when any man with a beard starts speaking. So, when they start reading the Nikah, she feels obliged to cover her head with something…so she reaches over and pulls her napkin fan out of her water glass and delicately places it over her 90’s prom queen updo.
I was at one wedding where, for whatever reason Shameem aunty couldn’t find a napkin in time…so she picked up her dinner plate and held it over her head. I kid you not. It was one of the most ridiculous things I have ever seen.
Vikram Chatwal had an entire “Pakeezah” theme party as one of his many pre-wedding events. An entire evening inspired by a movie about a man who falls in love with his prostitute first-cousin, and which ends with his father killing his uncle/prostitute fiancee’s father. How romantic.